RE: Collapse/expand the rows inside a grid based on column

davel001150 — Fri, 29 May 2020 13:15:55 GMT

Define a local variable that shows all the contents of the highest level grid (managers and tasks, in your case). Next define another local variable for a selected manager, a boolean flag for when manager is selected, another local variable that if a manager is selected stores the contents of the filtered grid. Finally, a local variable that stores the grid for display. About all of these will have to be set up with a!refreshVariables.

The local variable that stores the grid for display is defined as: if ( managerSelected, local!filteredGrid, local!highLevelGrid)

When the user clicks on a manager, the local variable definition of filtered grid will most likely have to fire off a helper rule you write to create the additional rows to display for that manager. You might consider the type() function in a a!forEach loop to make them, and then the insert() function to place the new rows into the exact position under the selected manager.

You also need to think of how to de-select a manager, and then likely reset local!filteredGrid to null or empty list. Or maybe you don't need to, and you can simply overwrite it when you make a new one selecting a new manager.

This is all super, super high level, but you can design with what you have on hand to do what you want. This is going to be something like a minor Epic for your team, so take your time.

A bare bones, nothing mock-up as part of a SPIKE might be your best first run at this. I'm talking dummy data {"A","B","C"} that can get "Apple", "Asparagus", "Aligator" to display when you click "A". Then, if you can get "Carrot", "Camel", "Crocodile" to display when you click "C" instead, you've made it.